{"id":1450,"date":"2024-07-26T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2024-07-26T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T21:43:12","slug":"mermaid-sensory-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/mermaid-sensory-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid Sensory Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Both my son (4 years old) and my daughter (5 years old) think mermaids are magical and fascinating creatures to add to their imaginative play. So, of course, we needed to do some mermaid sensory play activities. Confession: I love mermaids too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mermaid Sensory Small World Play<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This IKEA flisat table sensory play activity was made around Eye Spy Club’s storyboard pieces and an old bag of epsom salts I had in the bathroom cupboard. I dyed the epsom salts blue by simply adding blue food colouring to the salt and shaking in a ziplock bag. The epsom salts had all harden in the bag and I was shaving away salt from a huge ball when I thought, “this is kind of fun, maybe the kids would like to break this up”. So I left the rest of the salt hunk for them. Then I added in a bag of mix-ins from an Ice Cream Play Kit I already had to the coloured salt (also from Eye Spy Club). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gorgeous hand painted mermaid peg dolls are from Kidfolk and Co. They had so much fun with our already much-loved Tara Treasures mermaid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I added in our bathymetric pond on its side to look like a cave and some of our other ocean resources. The kids enjoyed breaking up the salt ball first and then spent time organizing the mermaids’ house. They made them beds and puts them to sleep. So sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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